Impact of science & technology on society books

8577 books were found.

The World As I See It

The World As I See It

Author: Albert Einstein
ISBN: 9781585095599
Format: Hardback
$42.69

The most advanced and celebrated mind of the 20th Century, without a doubt, is attributed to Albert Einstein. This...  Read More >>

Crunch Time: How Everyday Life is Killing the Future

Crunch Time: How Everyday Life is Killing the Future...

Author: Mike Hanley ,  Adrian Monck
ISBN: 9781840468014
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Terrorism, poverty, ecological meltdown, climate change, pandemics - this is the background noise we have all learnt...  Read More >>

Information Society and the Workplace: Spaces, Boundaries and Agency

Information Society and the Workplace: Spaces, Boundaries...

Author: Prof Jeff Hearn (Swedish School of Economics and Business Administation, Helsinki. Finland) ,  Tuula Heiskanen (The University of Tampere, Finland)
ISBN: 9780415439862
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Bringing together studies of everyday local practices in workplaces within an information society, this book has...  Read More >>

Bridging the Digital Divide: Innovation Systems for ICT in Brazil, China, India, Thailand, and Southern Africa

Bridging the Digital Divide: Innovation Systems for...

Author: Angathevar Baskaran ,  Mammo Muchie
ISBN: 9781905068807
Format: Hardback
$208.56

The impressive advances of information and communication technologies (ICT) in some Asian countries have led some...  Read More >>

Bodies of Tomorrow: Technology, Subjectivity, Science Fiction

Bodies of Tomorrow: Technology, Subjectivity, Science...

Author: Sherryl Vint
ISBN: 9780802090522
Format: Hardback
$125.00

Bodies of Tomorrow argues for the importance of challenging visions of humanity in the future that overlook our...  Read More >>

Real Drugs in a Virtual World: Drug Discourse and Community Online

Real Drugs in a Virtual World: Drug Discourse and Community...

Author: Edward Murguia ,  Melissa Tackett-Gibson
ISBN: 9780739114551
Format: Paperback
$61.95

Many assume that the Internet introduces youth and young adults to dangerous information and substances while others...  Read More >>

Progress in Convergence: Technologies for Human Wellbeing, Volume 1093

Progress in Convergence: Technologies for Human Wellbeing,...

Author: William Sims Bainbridge (National Science Foundation, Arlington) ,  Mihail C. Roco (National Science Foundation, Arlington)
ISBN: 9781573316651
Format: Paperback
$209.95

"Continued economic growth, human welfare, and national security depend upon constant technological progress; and...  Read More >>

Real Drugs in a Virtual World: Drug Discourse and Community Online

Real Drugs in a Virtual World: Drug Discourse and Community...

Author: Edward Murguia ,  Melissa Tackett-Gibson
ISBN: 9780739114544
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Many assume that the Internet introduces youth and young adults to dangerous information and substances while others...  Read More >>

Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States

Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and...

Author: Sheila Jasanoff
ISBN: 9780691130422
Format: Paperback
$67.99

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Technological and Environmental Policy: Studies in Eastern Europe

Technological and Environmental Policy: Studies in Eastern...

Author: Gerhard Banse
ISBN: 9783894049362
Format: Paperback
$60.72

Technologie- und Umweltpolitik als Mittel gesellschaftlicher Gestaltung wird in den Landern Mittel- und Osteuropas...  Read More >>

Technology and Society

Technology and Society

Author: Linda Hjorth ,  Barbara Eichler
ISBN: 9780131194434
Format: Paperback
$284.06

For courses in Science, Technology, and Society; Culture and Society; Sociology; Ecology; Technology and Ethics;...  Read More >>

Essays: First and Second Series

Essays: First and Second Series

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
ISBN: 9781420929270
Format: Paperback
$36.93

This collection of the first and second series of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson collects some of the classic thoughts...  Read More >>

Technology and Security: Governing Threats in the New Millennium

Technology and Security: Governing Threats in the New...

Author: Brian Rappert
ISBN: 9781349285846
Format: Paperback
$84.99

This book takes forward the existing state of academic understanding where security and technology intersect. It...  Read More >>

Biotechnology, Security and the Search for Limits: An Inquiry into Research and Methods

Biotechnology, Security and the Search for Limits: An...

Author: B. Rappert
ISBN: 9781349280674
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Biotechnology, Security and the Search for Limits examines the post 9/11 security implications for life science...  Read More >>

Shaping Science and Technology Policy: The Next Generation of Research

Shaping Science and Technology Policy: The Next Generation...

Author: David H. Guston ,  Daniel Sarewitz
ISBN: 9780299219109
Format: Hardback
$118.80

As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama criticized the George W. Bush administration for its unrestrained actions...  Read More >>

Globalization and the Future of African Languages

Globalization and the Future of African Languages

Author: Francis Egbokhare ,  Clement Kolawole
ISBN: 9789780668006
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Leading scholars of African languages address the many new ways that ICT have relevance to African languages for...  Read More >>

Exploration and Science: Social Impact and Interaction

Exploration and Science: Social Impact and Interaction...

Author: Michael Sean Reidy ,  Gary Kroll
ISBN: 9781576079850
Format: Hardback
$125.00

This comprehensive volume explores the intricate, mutually dependent relationship between science and exploration-how...  Read More >>

The Consequences of Information: Institutional Implications of Technological Change

The Consequences of Information: Institutional Implications...

Author: Jannis Kallinikos
ISBN: 9781845423285
Format: Hardback
$243.23

This important book addresses the organizational and economic implications of the new technologies of information...  Read More >>

Love and Other Technologies: Retrofitting Eros for the Information Age

Love and Other Technologies: Retrofitting Eros for the...

Author: Dominic Pettman
ISBN: 9780823226696
Format: Paperback
$61.95

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Love and Other Technologies: Retrofitting Eros for the Information Age

Love and Other Technologies: Retrofitting Eros for the...

Author: Dominic Pettman
ISBN: 9780823226689
Format: Hardback
$159.95

Highly ritualized expressions of desire reveal an era's attitude toward what it means to exist as a self among others....  Read More >>

Past, Present and Future of Research in the Information Society

Past, Present and Future of Research in the Information...

Author: Wesley Shrum ,  Keith Benson
ISBN: 9780387327228
Format: Hardback
$419.76

This book examines the role of research and the production of knowledge in the information society, with special...  Read More >>

Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0

Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0

Author: Lawrence Lessig
ISBN: 9780465039142
Format: Paperback
$50.16

This second edition, or Version 2.0, of Code has been prepared through the author's wiki, a web site that allows...  Read More >>

Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil

Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
ISBN: 9781602060371
Format: Paperback
$23.63

If ever there was a thinker who swam against the social and ethical tide of his day, it was Nietzsche. Nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

A Matter of Size: Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative

A Matter of Size: Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology...

Author: National Research Council ,  Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
ISBN: 9780309102230
Format: Paperback
$111.26

Presents the results of reviews undertaken by National Research Council. This book addresses the economic impact...  Read More >>

Interfaces between Science and Society

Interfaces between Science and Society

Author: Ângela Guimarães Pereira ,  Sofia Guedes Vaz
ISBN: 9781874719977
Format: Hardback
$315.00

As the world faces increasingly disparate challenges, science is being subjected to vehement demands from society...  Read More >>

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